This study deals with crucial issues related to the diasporic psyche

experienced by expatriates.
This study deals with crucial issues related to the diasporic psyche
experienced by expatriates
Uma Parameswaran is one of the expatriate writers in Canada, her works
embody crucial issues related to the psychological diaspora experienced
by immigrants, such as; feelings of racism, alienation, dislocation,
nostalgia, spiritual rupture because of the clash between conflicting
cultures (the host country and the country of origin), and the loss of
identity. Uma Parameswaran's works show how exciting life abroad can
be, but often lonely. Her protagonists look for new identity and self-
fashioning; they search for symbols of the past in an attempt to
desensitize their sensibility with the heritage of the past. Parameswaran
says in her article “Indian Diaspora Literature in Canada”, “...the spaces
of immigrants are not homogeneous, they depend on how they are
adapted to the environment and the new nation” (12).
The writer bases her works on her individual experience as an Indo-
Canadian, as she derives her material from her cultural and historical
background that merges with the process of belonging and adapting to
the culture of the new country. The writer visualizes the mental diaspora
that immigrants experience in imagining the homeland in a series of
objects and symbols. It tells how immigrants create an atmosphere
similar to that of their country of origin by creating their own ghetto,
celebrating festivals, eating together or holding communal feasts,
exchanging cultural signs, frequenting homes of their own culture and
color, and a little social contact with the dominant group, feeling the
pleasure of receiving Letters from their homeland. They create an
"alternative world" in their current world and ignore the hidden desire to
integrate among the majority, opposing the willingness of their children
to adapt and accept the prevailing culture. Perhaps they remember the
tragedies they suffered in their original homeland, so they have
conflicting feelings and feel torn between nostalgia for the past and a
feeling of solace to get rid of it.

embodied critical issues Uma, an Indo-Canadian writer who embodies

Uma Parameswaran is Indo Canadian writer. She immigrated to Canada
in the 1960s. Her works